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1998 RESULTS AND OTHER FEATS


The Award for Twin Pusher Excellence
From time to time I'll send out an award for Excellent Twin Pusher Excellence. Here's what one looks like.



FRED EMMERT'S EXCELLENT
TWIN PUSHER ADVENTURE

Fred Emmert receives an  Award Certificate of Great Twin Pusher Merit for his excellent flight at the 30th annual United States Free Flight Championships at Lost Hills  CA. November 2000.

Fred is 79 and first built twin pushers as a Boy Scout. 

What follows is from the report in the  San Valeers News letter He was flying a Simmers, which seems to be the hot set up on the West Coast 

There were 7 or 8 ships launched but a couple didn’t fly well enough to post times. In the words of the San Valeers news letter “ Half a dozen twin pushers were soon high overhead, all climbing gracefully away.” Fred Emmert and Hank Cole caught the same thermal. And drifted 2 miles down wind into the hard to see. But Hank Cole rode a chase bike under the pair and reported that Fred’s Simmers was still 20 feet up when his ship landed.  The news letter gives as times 5 min 6 sec and 5 min 5sec.

It sounds like a fine time was had by all. 

Congratulations Fred!

  EDWIN LAMB'S EXCELLENT
TWIN  PUSHER ADVENTURE
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Edwin Lamb entered his Schmaedig Class C Twin Pusher in the Mulvihill event at the Willamette Modelers North West FF Champs in Oregon this August and placed 2nd against a field of modern  unlimited rubber planes!  We sent him a well deserved certificate of Outstanding Twin Pusher Merit.
Good work Ed.

Not only that but he sends some neat pix and here they are for you. Check the decoration and the field.



 



 


 
These nice pix were taken by Al Likely

Some Folks at the Thermal Thumbers 3rd Millennial Opener
Wayne Brock, George Perryman & Frank Hodson about to commit Model Aviation.

Dohrman Crawford sent me this. I believe these are from left to right Wayne Brock, George Perryman and Frank Hodson.

Some more fun pix from Dohrman Crawford.
George Perryman preps a very much flown Twin Pusher (Burnham?) Note: Perryman speckles

 
The Launch - Note : It is just dawning on the gentleman on the left (Wayne Brock?) that he wound his ship up backwards. It happens to us all.

   The '98 CONTEST RESULTS PAGE
All times in seconds
Flyer 1st Flight 2nd Flight 3rd Flight Totals model
Matthew
Mc Donald		  50 105 55 210 Popular
Science
 Bob Erpelding 39 52 68 159 Burnham
Matthew
Mc Donald		 80 90 85 255 Popular
Science
Matthew
Mc Donald		 155 87 119 361 Popular 
Science 
Georg
Tornkvist		 148 140 110 398 Indoor
Manulkin
Sydney Camm at play
Randy Cox brought this to my attention. It's a pic of Sidney Camm holding a very old and quite British Twin Pusher. This fine pic can be found in the Smithsonian Book of Flight by Walter Boyne. In a later time Mr. Camm's brother was responsible for the Hawker Hurricane and VTO Harrier.

Check the un-A-frame, the transparency of the silk(?), the construction of the wing and the onlookers.

Thank you Randy Cox, Walter Boyne, Sidney Camm, and some anonymous photographer for making a day.


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